Benjamin B. Ferencz

Benjamin Berell Ferencz (born March 11, 1920)[1][2][3] is a Romanian-born American lawyer of Hungarian-Jewish descent.[4] He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the Chief Prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the twelve military trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany.

Ben Ferencz
Ferencz standing in the courtroom where the Nuremberg trials were held, 2012
Born
Benjamin Berell Ferencz

(1920-03-11) March 11, 1920
Csolt, Kingdom of Hungary (now Ciolt, Șomcuta Mare, Romania)
NationalityAmerican
EducationCity College of New York (BA)
Harvard University (LLB)
OccupationLawyer
Known forProsecutor at the Nuremberg trials
Allegiance United States
Service/branchUnited States Army
Years of service1943–45
RankColonel
Battles/warsWorld War II

Later, he became an advocate of the establishment of an international rule of law and of an International Criminal Court. From 1985 to 1996, he was Adjunct Professor of International Law at Pace University.

Ferencz was interviewed by Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes about his role at the Nuremberg Trials. He was 99-years-old at the time of the television interview.[5]

On March 4, 2022, he gave an interview in which he stated that President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin deserves to be behind bars as a war criminal.[6]

References
  1. Gale Reference Team: Biography - Ferencz, Benjamin B(erell) (1920-):, Thomson Gale, April 6, 2006.
  2. Logli, Ch.:"Benjamin Ferencz". Archived from the original on 2006-01-13. Retrieved 2006-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 1999? URL last accessed 2006-12-12.
  3. Ferencz, B.: Photos. One of the captions reads "On March 11, 2003, his 83rd birthday, ..." URL last accessed 2006-12-13.
  4. "www.benferencz.org". Archived from the original on 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2017-09-08.
  5. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/what-the-last-nuremberg-prosecutor-alive-ben-ferencz-wants-the-world-to-know-60-minutes-2019-06-30/
  6. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/last-surviving-nuremberg-trials-prosecutor-26389664


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